Shade region between curves

[Xin Dong]

Hi Rob,

Can you explain x(end:-1:1)? What does that mean?

Thanks,
Xin

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Rob Mahurin <rob at utk.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:48 PM, ofeyrpf <shanegibney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it possible with Octave to shade a region between two graphs?
>
> On May 19, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> > What you're probably looking for is called "area".
>
>
> "area" shades between a curve and the x-axis.  You can shade between
> two curves with "patch":
>
> octave:13> x = linspace(0,1.5);
> octave:14> patch( [x, x(end:-1:1)], [x.^2, x(end:-1:1).^4] , [1 0 0])
>
> There may be an easier way that other people know about.
>
> Rob
>
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